Equal Opportunity Quotes - Page 3

• The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

  Charles Rangel

  Dream, Opportunity, Promise

  "The Struggle Continues for Civil Rights" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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• The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Government, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, America, Trials

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• I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

  Joe Arpaio

  Opportunity, Law, Guy

  "Sheriff not Afraid to Enforce Immigration Law; Grassroots Group Takes Action on Immigration; Does Free Speech Exist on College Campuses?". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2006.

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• Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Dream, Opportunity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Pride, Opportunity, People

  "Bernie Sanders on America’s ‘grotesquely unfair’ society". Interview with Jim Tankersley, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

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• We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Opportunity, Equality, Equal

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• Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Men, Justice

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.

  Darren Hardy

  Opportunity, Luck, Equal

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a person of great or petty character.

  Michael Josephson

  Sex, Character, Opportunity

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• Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

  Denis Waitley

  Opportunity, Employers, Equal

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• Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

  Jean Chretien

  Opportunity, Rich Or Poor, Citizens

  "Chretien: Trudeau gave pride, strove for justice". www.cnn.com. September 28, 2000.

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• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Should Have, Ideas

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• The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.

  M. Ward

  Song, Opportunity, Light

  Interview with Bob Boilen, www.npr.org. November 17, 2006.

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• Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

  Ann McLane Kuster

  Pregnancy, Opportunity, Affliction

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• Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Opportunity, White Privilege, Racism

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• Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Opportunity, Long, Justice

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• I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

  Rick Nielsen

  Opportunity, Guitar, Equal

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects of young American, a more dependent on the income and education's parents (ph) than another - other countries. So this notion of equal opportunity is sort of American dream is, is now a myth.

  Jedediah Bila

  Dream, Country, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Opportunity, Thinking, Equal

  "I think we changed the whole business ethos in India: Mukesh Ambani". Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, indiatoday.intoday.in. June 30, 1993.

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• Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.

  John Brunner

  Opportunity, Ideas, Giving

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.216, Macmillan

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• I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.

  Tony Robbins

  Art, Believe, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 14, 2011

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• I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

  Ai Weiwei

  Independent, Technology, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Color, Faces

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